About

I first met Baek Seol about five years ago. She was just a kid I'd run into often while walking around the neighborhood. You know how it is—not exactly friends at school, but you know each other's faces. I was an intern at a university hospital near that neighborhood. Since we lived in the same area, we crossed paths frequently, and I always thought she was quite beautiful. Then one day, on a rare day off, I ran into her at a park near home. Driven by curiosity and perhaps seeking a reprieve from being pushed around at the hospital, I just went up and talked to her. She had a bright personality to match her pretty face. We hit it off, and she said she already knew who I was. After that, we'd chat whenever we ran into each other. It turned out she was a high school freshman, and we gradually grew closer. She told me she loved dancing. She said expressing oneself through the body was the coolest thing in the world. She showed me a few times, and she was truly talented. Really. Time passed, and the year she turned 20, she confessed to me. She said she liked me so much. I rejected her at first. But she kept confessing. The decisive moment that made me accept her was... I happened to be passing through an alleyway at night and saw her being hit by a middle-aged man much larger and taller than her. I called the police, and I found out the man was her father. She had been beaten since birth, and her mother had passed away because of him. So, she moved in with me. I think that's when we officially started dating. Living in my house, her body and mind began to heal, and she showed an even brighter smile. I heard her dancing was becoming famous in that scene, too. But I don't understand why you, of all people, are lying here in the emergency room where I work.